Your Best Albums of the Decade (2000-09)

borneoman · 01-09-2010, 09:23 AM

I know it's hard, but I think it would be very interesting...

I came up with a top 10:

10. Rachael Yamagata - Elephants/Teeth Sinking Into Heart

9. Radiohead - Kid A

8. Antony & The Johnsons - I am a Bird Now

7. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble

6. Bon Iver - For Emma

5. William Fitzsimmons - The Sparrow and the Crow

4. Tori Amos - Scarlet's walk

3. Damien Rice - 9

2. Sigur Ros - ( )

1. Damien Rice - O

Rai · 01-09-2010, 10:45 AM

10. Tékitoi - Rachid Taha

9. Ostinato - Jordi Savall; Hespèrion XXI

8. Calexico - Scraping

7. The Bell X1 Other Voices session. Not an album but I don't care, it's so damn good.

6. Los Impossibles - L'Appreggiata & Christina Pluhar

5. KiLA & OKI - Kila & Oki

4. The Gaelic Hit Factory - John Spillane and Lois de Paor

3. For The Birds - The Frames

2. Skylarkin' - Mic Christopher

1. Live in Dublin - Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band+ We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

glo32 · 01-09-2010, 12:04 PM

Here's the top20 albums of the decade I posted on another forum...

1. Sigur Ros - ()
2. Radiohead - Kid A
3. Damien Rice - O
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Antony & the Johnsons - I am a bird now
6. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
7. The Frames - For the birds
8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
9. Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
11. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
12. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
13. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
14. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
15. Radiohead - In Rainbows
16. The National - Boxer
17. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
18. Josh Ritter- Golden Age Of Radio
19. Rufus Wainwright - Want One
20. Bruce Springsteen & The Seeger Sessions Band - We Shall Overcome

jasmineha · 01-09-2010, 10:10 PM

I guess I could do my favorite albums of the decade, it will be hard...
I'm not doing them in any order, it's too hard to pick an absolute favorite.
- A Perfect Circle: Mer De Noms
- A Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step
- Ray Lamontagne: Trouble
- Garden State Soundtrack
- Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
- Damien: O and 9
- Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost is Born

I don't think I can honestly pick any more. There were a lot that I really loved, but not exactly all the songs. These were the albums that I almost feel shaped my life. I can look back and have tons of memories of them.

cille · 01-10-2010, 09:47 AM

Starting from the bottom:

10 - Hawksley Workman - (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves
9 - Elliott Smith - Figure 8
8 - Wilco - Yankie Hotel Foxtrot
7 - Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
6 - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
5 - Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
4 - Paul Simon - You're the One
3 - Wilco - Sky Blue sky
2 - Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
1 - Damien Rice - O

Runner-ups:

Britta Persson - Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist
J. Tillman - Year in the Kingdom
Tegan & Sara - If It Was You
David Gray - Lost Songs
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
Taxi Taxi! - Still Standing at Your Back Door
Rufus Wainwright - Want One
Sarah Slean - Orphan Music
Nina Kinert - Pets and Friends
The Frames - Burn the Maps

Josh Rouse - Subtitolo & 1972
Carina Round - The Disconnection
Ray Lamontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
Cat Power - You Are Free
Jim Stärk - Ten songs and Hey Hey
Thomas Dybdahl - The October Trilogy
Feist - The Reminder
Hawksley Workman - For him and the Girls
Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...

Joyful · 01-10-2010, 01:31 PM

I am loving these lists!

Here is mine. I tried to put it in order, but I might change my mind on some of the order tomorrow. It is all mood dependent. It was a little disheartening to see the low number of female artists that made the cut. I am a huge Tori and Ani fan, but I am afraid that none of their releases of the last 10 years are my favorites.

1. Damien Rice- O
2. Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
3. Bon Iver- For Emma Forever Ago
4. Damien Rice- 9
5. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- Cardinology
6. Dave Matthews Band- Lillywhite Sessions (unreleased, but leaked)
7. Iron and Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days
8. U2- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
9. Sigur Ros- ( )
10. Natalie Merchant- Motherland
11. Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticism
12. White Stripes- Elephant
13. Cat Power- The Greatest
14. Radiohead- Kid A
15. David Gray- Draw the Line

Honorable Mentions:
Tori Amos- Scarlet's Walk
Ani DiFranco- Red Letter Year
Beck- Sea Change
PJ Harvey- Songs from the City, Songs from the Sea

That was fun!!

cille · 01-10-2010, 01:49 PM

Oh dang, I forgot Pj Harvey altogether - I'm an ass.
I love Uh Huh Her & White Chalk from her.

Swedish Professor · 01-10-2010, 04:31 PM

I like this but it's really hard to list best of the decade. It will be what I listen most to now so it might not be so many records from early 00.

10. Coldplay - A rush of blood to the head
9. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
8.Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
7. Radical Face - Ghost
6. Beirut - The flying club cup
5. Angus and Julia Stone - A book like this
4. Mumford and sons - Sigh no more
3. Håkan Hellström - Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg
2. Bon Iver - For Emma forever ago
1. Damien Rice - O

Very cose to get on the list. The xx - xx, Shout out louds - Howl howl gaff gaff, Johnny Flynn - A Larum and all the other albums swedish artist Håkan Hellström ever made.

Joyful · 01-10-2010, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cille

Oh dang, I forgot Pj Harvey altogether - I'm an ass.
I love Uh Huh Her & White Chalk from her.

I love both those albums too. Especially White Chalk.
And Extraordinary Machine was close to making my list too.

hazey · 01-10-2010, 05:23 PM

No particular order...

Björk - Vespertine
Brian Wilson - Smile
Animal Collective - Feels
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Tom Waits - Alice / Real Gone
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Josh Rouse - 1972
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

jasmineha · 01-10-2010, 08:24 PM

Joyful: I totally forgot about Beck "Sea Change" and that's one of my favs!

01-09-2010, 09:23 AM	#1
borneoman Insane Eskimo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,151	Your Best Albums of the Decade (2000-09) I know it's hard, but I think it would be very interesting... I came up with a top 10: 10. Rachael Yamagata - Elephants/Teeth Sinking Into Heart 9. Radiohead - Kid A 8. Antony & The Johnsons - I am a Bird Now 7. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble 6. Bon Iver - For Emma 5. William Fitzsimmons - The Sparrow and the Crow 4. Tori Amos - Scarlet's walk 3. Damien Rice - 9 2. Sigur Ros - ( ) 1. Damien Rice - O __________________ I made you laugh, I made you cry, I made you open up your eyes, didn't I? Last edited by borneoman; 01-10-2010 at 08:10 AM. Reason: forgot Kid A

01-09-2010, 10:45 AM	#2
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	10. Tékitoi - Rachid Taha 9. Ostinato - Jordi Savall; Hespèrion XXI 8. Calexico - Scraping 7. The Bell X1 Other Voices session. Not an album but I don't care, it's so damn good. 6. Los Impossibles - L'Appreggiata & Christina Pluhar 5. KiLA & OKI - Kila & Oki 4. The Gaelic Hit Factory - John Spillane and Lois de Paor 3. For The Birds - The Frames 2. Skylarkin' - Mic Christopher 1. Live in Dublin - Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band+ We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers"

01-09-2010, 10:10 PM	#4
jasmineha Wide eyed and hopeful.. Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Wyoming, USA Posts: 269	I guess I could do my favorite albums of the decade, it will be hard... I'm not doing them in any order, it's too hard to pick an absolute favorite. - A Perfect Circle: Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle: Thirteenth Step - Ray Lamontagne: Trouble - Garden State Soundtrack - Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism - Damien: O and 9 - Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost is Born I don't think I can honestly pick any more. There were a lot that I really loved, but not exactly all the songs. These were the albums that I almost feel shaped my life. I can look back and have tons of memories of them. __________________ "That's the nightmare I've been running from..."

01-10-2010, 09:47 AM	#5
cille creepycute Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Copenhagen Posts: 15,333	Starting from the bottom: 10 - Hawksley Workman - (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves 9 - Elliott Smith - Figure 8 8 - Wilco - Yankie Hotel Foxtrot 7 - Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine 6 - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 5 - Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker 4 - Paul Simon - You're the One 3 - Wilco - Sky Blue sky 2 - Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago 1 - Damien Rice - O Runner-ups: Britta Persson - Top Quality Bones and a Little Terrorist J. Tillman - Year in the Kingdom Tegan & Sara - If It Was You David Gray - Lost Songs Josh Ritter - The Animal Years Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch Taxi Taxi! - Still Standing at Your Back Door Rufus Wainwright - Want One Sarah Slean - Orphan Music Nina Kinert - Pets and Friends The Frames - Burn the Maps Josh Rouse - Subtitolo & 1972 Carina Round - The Disconnection Ray Lamontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black Cat Power - You Are Free Jim Stärk - Ten songs and Hey Hey Thomas Dybdahl - The October Trilogy Feist - The Reminder Hawksley Workman - For him and the Girls Rachael Yamagata - Elephants... __________________ Yeah Last edited by cille; 01-10-2010 at 05:56 PM. Reason: changed my mind 3 times, argghh

01-10-2010, 01:49 PM	#7
cille creepycute Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Copenhagen Posts: 15,333	Oh dang, I forgot Pj Harvey altogether - I'm an ass. I love Uh Huh Her & White Chalk from her. __________________ Yeah

01-09-2010, 12:04 PM	#3
glo32 Eskimo Regular Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,244	Here's the top20 albums of the decade I posted on another forum... 1. Sigur Ros - () 2. Radiohead - Kid A 3. Damien Rice - O 4. Arcade Fire - Funeral 5. Antony & the Johnsons - I am a bird now 6. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 7. The Frames - For the birds 8. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 9. Ray LaMontagne - Trouble 10. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 11. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak 12. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun 13. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights 14. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens 15. Radiohead - In Rainbows 16. The National - Boxer 17. Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days 18. Josh Ritter- Golden Age Of Radio 19. Rufus Wainwright - Want One 20. Bruce Springsteen & The Seeger Sessions Band - We Shall Overcome

01-10-2010, 01:31 PM	#6
Joyful Eskimama Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: United States Posts: 1,276	I am loving these lists! Here is mine. I tried to put it in order, but I might change my mind on some of the order tomorrow. It is all mood dependent. It was a little disheartening to see the low number of female artists that made the cut. I am a huge Tori and Ani fan, but I am afraid that none of their releases of the last 10 years are my favorites. 1. Damien Rice- O 2. Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker 3. Bon Iver- For Emma Forever Ago 4. Damien Rice- 9 5. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- Cardinology 6. Dave Matthews Band- Lillywhite Sessions (unreleased, but leaked) 7. Iron and Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days 8. U2- How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 9. Sigur Ros- ( ) 10. Natalie Merchant- Motherland 11. Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticism 12. White Stripes- Elephant 13. Cat Power- The Greatest 14. Radiohead- Kid A 15. David Gray- Draw the Line Honorable Mentions: Tori Amos- Scarlet's Walk Ani DiFranco- Red Letter Year Beck- Sea Change PJ Harvey- Songs from the City, Songs from the Sea That was fun!!

01-10-2010, 04:31 PM	#8
Swedish Professor Eskimo skiier Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gothenburg Posts: 197	I like this but it's really hard to list best of the decade. It will be what I listen most to now so it might not be so many records from early 00. 10. Coldplay - A rush of blood to the head 9. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens 8.Josh Ritter - Hello Starling 7. Radical Face - Ghost 6. Beirut - The flying club cup 5. Angus and Julia Stone - A book like this 4. Mumford and sons - Sigh no more 3. Håkan Hellström - Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg 2. Bon Iver - For Emma forever ago 1. Damien Rice - O Very cose to get on the list. The xx - xx, Shout out louds - Howl howl gaff gaff, Johnny Flynn - A Larum and all the other albums swedish artist Håkan Hellström ever made. __________________ I'm not lost, just frozen in frost

01-10-2010, 05:23 PM	#10
hazey Draper's Girl Friday Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,910	No particular order... Björk - Vespertine Brian Wilson - Smile Animal Collective - Feels Joanna Newsom - Ys Tom Waits - Alice / Real Gone Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home The Avalanches - Since I Left You Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker Boards of Canada - Geogaddi Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha Panda Bear - Person Pitch Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Josh Rouse - 1972 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven __________________ "We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now."

01-10-2010, 08:24 PM	#11
jasmineha Wide eyed and hopeful.. Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Wyoming, USA Posts: 269	Joyful: I totally forgot about Beck "Sea Change" and that's one of my favs! __________________ "That's the nightmare I've been running from..."